Also many people like my Google Spreadsheet for finding the new pitch of a prop when using twisted folding prop yokes.

I live near Stratford-upon-Avon, England with my lovely Mexican wife and two wonderful children, Max and Oscar.

Although I am now an IT developer, I started off in the Aero industry and I have been an aeromodeller since I was 7, starting R/C when I was 14. I have always loved gliders and by the age of 18 I had a 10ft Kyosho Cirrus which I mainly flew off a bungee. I was also enthusiastic about electric power so I converted it to electric with two Graupner High Fly pusher motors, and ten Saft AA sized NiCd cells. It flew fine, though it was a bit too heavy to thermal well.

I flew some thermal soaring comps in the late 70's, but stopped aeromodelling in the 80's. I flew full size gliders for several years, getting to Silver C level, but quit after a spate of fatal crashes at my club.